ABSTRACT
Mariana Starke is one of those women travel writers who are regularly mentioned in passing in studies of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century travel rather as curiosities, but whose contributions to the development of travel writing as a genre are rarely studied in their own right.2 This chapter aims to redress the balance by studying two versions of her writings on Italy, focusing particularly on page layout to track changes in the presentation and hierarchisation of information. These typographical changes provide a fascinating parallel to the evolution of the eighteenth-century travel narrative towards the more typically nineteenth-century travel guide of the sort commonly known as a Baedeker or Murray-the names of their (male) publishers functioning as commercial brands.
